--- title: Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can’t description: Australia's Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools after finding that commercial vendors couldn't keep pace with emerging AI-powered... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bank-built-its-own-ai-threat-hunter-because-vendors-can-t-uoms87v8d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can’t | daily.dev og:description: Australia's Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools after finding that commercial vendors couldn't keep pace with emerging AI-powered... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bank-built-its-own-ai-threat-hunter-because-vendors-can-t-uoms87v8d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UOMs87V8d.png og:image:alt: Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can’t og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bank built its own AI threat hunter because vendors can’t **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Australia's Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools after finding that commercial vendors couldn't keep pace with emerging AI-powered threats. The bank's weekly threat signal volume grew from 80 million to 400 billion, making traditional defenses unworkable. Two custom agents were developed: one that ingests threat research and produces risk assessments in 30 minutes (down from two days), and another that identifies indicators of compromise. The project required close collaboration between frontline security analysts and data scientists. A key challenge was making AI outputs deterministic enough for repeatable security predictions, particularly in red team assessments. The bank's security chief warns all organizations to prepare for AI-amplified attack volumes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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